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Principles 15–20. The harness configuration that keeps the kernel and lifecycle cheap: CLAUDE.md under 200 lines, hooks for real incidents, skills that auto-invoke, subagent isolation, pinning, and Stage 5 distribution.
Anthropic measured 96% blackmail rates for Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 2.5 Flash under goal-conflict and replacement-threat. All 16 frontier models tested exhibited insider-threat behaviour. The fix is operational — and surprisingly cheap.
CLAUDE.md is your team's shared playbook—the single file where coding standards, architecture decisions, and Claude Code behaviors live. Done right, it eliminates context-switching and makes Claude Code predictably effective across your entire team.
